Another urgent call on climate change from the United Nations
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Posted on November 28, 2007
Filed Under Uncategorized, Justice, Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Ecological hope, Earth spirituality
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Today, again, from Margaret Swedish:
Forgive me for posting twice in a day. I just wanted to draw your attention to the new report from the UN Development Program indicating the urgent need to address the impacts of climate change on the poorest populations on our planet. We can reflect on this more another day, but here are a couple of articles about this new report: from The Washington Post, UN: Poor Need $86 Billion in Climate Aid, and this, World must fix climate in less than ten years: UN.
Then also this, from NY Times science writer, Andrew Revkin: UN warns of climate-related setbacks, a classic understated title, meant not alarm — hardly matches the dire nature of the content.
Setbacks? We are talking about a scale of potential disaster beyond anything in human experience. This is what the UNDP report is about. Rather than setbacks, the UNDP calls them “unprecedented human development reversals.” I guess the Times doesn’t want to alarm us too much.
Every report that comes out these days gets more dire because each one comes after the passage of more time, more time that the world dawdles and fumes and twiddle’s its thumbs and shrugs its shoulders and avoids making the drastic changes required.
We thought it important to cite this report today, given the content of the previous post, given the challenge to all of us about how we are going to live through such a time.
“What is missing is a sense of urgency and human solidarity…,” said UNDP head Kemal Dervis.
Yes. Yes. And yes.
To read the report, go here.
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Dear,
The message is clear and is of importance in nature. Our entire system itself is for breakdown maintanance. What I meant to say that we get up from our slumberness only in the eleventh hour. Most of the top politicians are interested to show their might to other countries, they are all busy. Let us wait till they open their eye’s. we go posting in the web one way or other.